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Author
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.
Author
Publisher
Lorella Rose Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
December 7, 1941: After the attack on Paerl Harbor, one Japanese American family is caught up in a struggle to survive during World War II. Kimiko Miramoto is alone in Japan, the enemy's country. In America, Maggie, Akio, and Akio's Caucasian wife, Rose Marie, are labeled enemies of the United States and sent to different internment camps.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.
10) Tallgrass
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Her life turned upside-down when a Japanese internment camp is opened in their small Colorado town, Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When brothers Taro and Jimmy and their mother are forced to move from their home in California to a Japanese internment camp in the wake of the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing, Taro daringly escapes the camp to find fresh fish for his grieving brother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing tennis, and hanging around with his friendsjust like lots of other Americans. But everything changed when the United States went to war with Japan in 1941 and the government forced all people of Japanese ancestry to leave their homes on the West Coast and move to distant prison camps. This included Fred, whose parents had immigrated to the United States from Japan many years before. But...
16) The children of Topaz: the story of a Japanese-American internment camp : based on a classroom diary
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The diary of a third-grade class of Japanese-American children being held with their families in an internment camp during World War II.
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a JapaneseBaptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.
20) No-no boy
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of World War II, Ichiro, a Japanese American, returns home to Seattle to make a new start after two years in an internment camp and two years in prison for refusing to be drafted."--
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